The Seasons, Hymns, Ode, and SongsJ. W. H. Payne, 1813 - 323 páginas |
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... earth Is deep enrich'd with vegetable life ; Till , in the western sky , the downward sun Looks out , effulgent , from amid the flush 180 185 Of broken clouds , gay - shifting to his beam . 190 The rapid radiance instantaneous strikes ...
... earth Is deep enrich'd with vegetable life ; Till , in the western sky , the downward sun Looks out , effulgent , from amid the flush 180 185 Of broken clouds , gay - shifting to his beam . 190 The rapid radiance instantaneous strikes ...
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... earth , the grand ethereal bow Shoots up immense ; and every hue unfolds , In fair proportion , running from the red , To where the violet fades into the sky . Here , awful NEWTON ! the dissolving clouds Form , fronting on the sun , thy ...
... earth , the grand ethereal bow Shoots up immense ; and every hue unfolds , In fair proportion , running from the red , To where the violet fades into the sky . Here , awful NEWTON ! the dissolving clouds Form , fronting on the sun , thy ...
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... earth , beyond the power Of botanist to number up their tribes : Whether he steals along the lonely dale , In silent search ; or through the forest , rank With what the dull incurious weeds account , 220 225 Bursts his blind way ; or ...
... earth , beyond the power Of botanist to number up their tribes : Whether he steals along the lonely dale , In silent search ; or through the forest , rank With what the dull incurious weeds account , 220 225 Bursts his blind way ; or ...
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... earth Wide dash'd the waves , in undulation vast ; Till , from the centre to the streaming clouds , A shoreless ocean tumbled round the globe . 315 The Seasons since have , with severer sway , Oppress'd a broken world : the Winter keen ...
... earth Wide dash'd the waves , in undulation vast ; Till , from the centre to the streaming clouds , A shoreless ocean tumbled round the globe . 315 The Seasons since have , with severer sway , Oppress'd a broken world : the Winter keen ...
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... earth ! ESSENTIAL Presence , hail ! TO THEE I bend the knee ; to THEE my thoughts , 555 Continual , climb ; who , with a master - hand , Hast the great whole into perfection touch'd . By THEE the various vegetative tribes , Wrapt in a ...
... earth ! ESSENTIAL Presence , hail ! TO THEE I bend the knee ; to THEE my thoughts , 555 Continual , climb ; who , with a master - hand , Hast the great whole into perfection touch'd . By THEE the various vegetative tribes , Wrapt in a ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
affects the various amid art thou Autumn beam beauty beneath bloom bosom boundless breast breathes breeze Caledonia Celadon charm clouds Coriolanus deep delightful descends descriptive poetry earth ether Ev'n exalted fair fair brow fancy fierce flame flocks flood gale gentle gloom glowing grace grove happy heart heaven hills Lapland light luxury matchless maze mighty mind mingled mix'd mountains Muse Musidora Nature Nature's night numbers o'er Palemon passions peace plain poet poison'd pomp pride race rage rapture rills rise rocks roll round rous'd rural scarce scene Season described Season on Animals shade shine smile snow soft song soul spreads Spring storm stream stretch'd Summer swain sweet sweet emotions swell tempest tender thee Thomson thou thought thunder toil train tribes vale vegetable vex'd virtue walk waste wave wild winds wing Winter wintry wonders woods youth
Passagens conhecidas
Página 301 - Ye softer floods, that lead the humid maze Along the vale ; and thou, majestic main, A secret world of wonders in thyself, Sound His stupendous praise ; whose greater voice Or bids you roar, or bids your roarings fall.
Página 299 - THESE, as they change, ALMIGHTY FATHER, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of THEE. Forth in the pleasing Spring THY beauty walks, THY tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart is joy.
Página 303 - tis nought to me: Since GOD is ever present, ever felt, In the void waste as in the city full; And where he vital breathes there must be joy.
Página 249 - SEE, Winter comes, to rule the varied year, Sullen and sad, with all his rising train ; Vapours, and clouds, and storms. Be these my theme; These, that exalt the soul to solemn thought, And heavenly musing. Welcome, kindred glooms...
Página 99 - Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe the enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Página 56 - Sits on the horizon round a settled gloom : Not such as wintry storms on mortals shed, Oppressing life ; but lovely, gentle, kind, And full of every hope and every joy, The wish of nature. Gradual sinks the breeze Into a perfect calm ; that not a breath Is heard to quiver through the closing woods, Or rustling turn the many-twinkling leaves Of aspen tall.
Página 265 - And heedless rambling Impulse learn to think ; The conscious heart of Charity would warm, And her wide wish Benevolence dilate ; The social tear would rise, the social sigh ; And into clear perfection, gradual bliss, Refining still, the social passions work.
Página 49 - COME, gentle SPRING! ethereal Mildness! come; And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud, While music wakes around, veil'd in a shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend.
Página 88 - The whole creation round. Contentment walks The sunny glade, and feels an inward bliss Spring o'er his mind, beyond the power of kings To purchase.
Página 263 - In vain for him the officious wife prepares The fire fair-blazing, and the vestment warm ; In vain his little children, peeping out Into the mingling storm, demand their sire, With tears of artless innocence. Alas ! Nor wife, nor children, more shall he behold, Nor friends, nor sacred home.